Description
An integrated, hands-on resource for monitoring various aspects of the environment. This book brings together sample collection methods and physical, chemical and biological processes necessary to characterize the environment. It emphasizes field methods and real-time data acquisition. 1 Monitoring and Characterization of the Environment 2 Sampling and Data Quality Objectives in Environmental Monitoring 3 Statistics and Geostatistics in Environmental Monitoring 4 Automated Data Acquisition and Processing 5 Maps in Environmental Monitoring 6 Geographic Information Systems and Their Use for Environmental Monitoring 7 Soil and Vadose Zone Sampling 8 Groundwater Sampling 9 Monitoring Surface Waters 10 Monitoring Near-Surface Air Quality 11 Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring 12 Environmental Physical Properties and Processes 13 Chemical Properties and Processes 14 Environmental Microbial Properties and Processes 15 Physical Contaminants 16 Chemical Contaminants 17 Microbial Contaminants 18 Soil and Groundwater Remediation 19 Ecological Restoration 20 Risk Assessment and Environmental Regulations
